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Rich Hutnik wrote on Sun, Nov 16, 2008 05:05 AM UTC:
Hello George.  

You may touch on why such had happened.  I believe because the Chess Variant community can't agree to common standards, and it is an excess of 'every man for himself', with the CV site being a shrine to self-indulgence, the end result has been a breaking down of the community.  I believe the variant community should be the vanguard of any game community, to act as play testers of how a game evolves.  When they aren't in this position, being booted out as freakish and disruptive heretics, for the lack of a better word, then then the game community itself suffers from stagnation.  You see elements of it even today.  There needs to be dialog.

I need to also add here that when the variant community spins off a variant that demands players invest in new boards and a bunch of new pieces, before such has been shown, that is yet another issue.  Also, when the variant community demands players throw away everything they know, causing chess players to discard their knowledge, in order to play, you don't get crossover.  You end up being nothing more than a freakshow to them.  Oh, they will look at all these games here, and saw, 'wow, that is odd', but won't play.  They may sneak over and try an established variant, that is old (say go from Chess to Xiangqi or Shogi), but that will be on the side.  It is a reset of their knowledge.

Anyhow, people are free to contact the Seirawan people to see why they feel as they do about variants.

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